Mom's secret power

So, I had to work a long day Wednesday and just could not wait to get home. I was just missing the kids and was just wanting to talk to Phil.

I walk in the door and there was pure silence.....................

I was so disappointed...................

There are no words to describe the pure joy of walking in the door to have three kids come running and yelling "Mommy". You know the scene everyone talking at once telling you their most important story of the day. All Mom's have that master skill that you can catch just enough of each story to know exactly what happen and Dad looks at you like 'How in the world did you do that?'

But today nothing.

So I asked Phil where the kids were and he said they were out playing in the backyard. He knew I was wondering if they were ok. He told me to relax he just checked on them and the dog is out there with them. I walk to the patio door and sure enough everyone was fine playing. After a quick chat with Phil I started dinner. I was still worried about them being outside so I went and checked on them again.

Ya know that master skill I just told you about above........well there is another one most of us share. If you feel like something is wrong it usually is.

A few weeks back I noticed a hole in the backyard where the dog had been digging. She must have been really upset with me because it was at least a foot and a half deep. It was out of the way and no one could get hurt by it so I left it alone. Well Jack found it.

That something wrong was Jack filling this hole with water, from the hose, and each one of the kids including Maddie taking turns jumping in the mud hole. However, Maddie is not quite three feet tall. So when she is jumping in the mud hole it is hard to tell if she is covered in mud or her diaper exploded. She had mud in her ears, hair, diaper. You name it I found mud in it.

Needless to say, Jack got in the most trouble for instigating it, then Katie for being the oldest and not coming to tell us what Jack had done. As for Maddie, here I am in my work clothes, I am trying to take her to the tub for a bath before dinner and she is hollering "hold you". Meaning she wants me to pick her up and she refused to walk up the stairs. I had to carry her up the stairs by her hands swinging her hoping she wouldn't get mud on my good clothes.

In case you needed a visual.................

Yes, the dog needed to get in the picture too. She just walked right in the picture as I snapped it. I guess she did want Jack to get all the blame.

As you can see the kids got baths before dinner instead of after Wednesday evening.

Happy Thursday!!

TTFN~